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U.S. and China Agree to Walk Back Trade Tensions

Negotiators said the two governments would stick to a previous truce and reduce tensions that had escalated in recent weeks between the world’s largest economies.

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News crews waiting on Tuesday outside Lancaster House in London, where U.S.-Chinese trade talks were taking place.
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As Immigration Protests Grip California, Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain

Scenes of unrest in Southern California, stoked by President Trump as he tries to deport more immigrants, have left Democratic leaders worried the confrontation elevates a losing issue for the party.

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President Trump’s extraordinary decision to send military troops to quell domestic protesters over the objection of local authorities has unleashed an avalanche of condemnation from Democrats.
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Yosemite Bans Large Flags From El Capitan, Criminalizing Protests

Violators could face up to six months in jail under the new rule, which appears to have been formalized last month.

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Climbers who hang large flags or banners from El Capitan could face up to six months in jail under a crackdown on political displays by the Trump administration. A group of climbers unfurled a trans pride flag in May.
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Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies

Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.

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Niede Guidon in 1989. Her discovery in Brazil of what she believed to be man-made objects dating to 30,000 years ago or more challenged the accepted theory that humans arrived in the Americas about 13,000 years ago.
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Justice Dept. to Take Narrow Approach to Prosecuting Corporate Bribery Abroad

Officials said the move was made to align enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act with the broader goal of increasing the country’s ability to compete overseas.

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Todd Blanche, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, accused the Biden administration of opening too many cases, “burdening companies” and damaging national interests.
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Appeals Court Pauses Ruling Ordering Due Process for Deported Venezuelans

The court’s pause on a judge’s order came a day before the Trump administration was supposed to outline how to allow nearly 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador to challenge their expulsion.

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Scores of Venezuelan immigrants were deported without hearings to El Salvador in March under a rarely invoked wartime law and are being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.
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Trump Says Protesters at Military Parade Will Be Met With ‘Very Big Force’

“I haven’t even heard about a protest,” at the Saturday event in Washington celebrating the Army, he said, but “this is people that hate our country.”

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Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, President Trump made no distinction between the right to peacefully assemble that is guaranteed by the First Amendment and engaging in violence and vandalism.
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A Look at the Crackdown On the L.A. Protests

Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the authorities in the Los Angeles protests have violated their own policies, federal policies and injunctions put into place after the George Floyd protests.
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Reagan Invoked the ‘Welfare Queen.’ The New G.O.P. Target Is a Lazy Gamer.

Republicans targeting safety net programs once invoked women they claimed were living lavishly on government funds. Now as they seek to pare back Medicaid, the imagery has changed — but not the argument.

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Speaker Mike Johnson and others have accused able-bodied unemployed Americans of “cheating” by receiving Medicaid coverage when they could work.
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Michael Bloomberg Endorses Andrew Cuomo for Mayor

Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is backing former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for mayor of New York City.

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Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, backed Andrew Cuomo for his experience and “government know-how.”
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Barbara Holdridge, Whose Record Label Foretold Audiobooks, Dies at 95

Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.

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Barbara Holdridge in 2002. A recording of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” put her record label, Caedmon, founded with Marianne Mantel, on the road to success.
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Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primaries for New Jersey Governor

Winners of Tuesday’s Democratic and Republican matchups in New Jersey will compete in November to be governor. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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The campaign for governor of New Jersey has drawn numerous prominent candidates, including two big-city mayors, two members of Congress and a Republican who came close to beating Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, in 2021.
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Is Jessica Ramos Gone and Forgotten? Not Quite.

Plus: The second and final debate of the Democratic primary for mayor is Thursday, but Michael Blake, a breakout performer from the first, won’t be onstage.

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State Senator Jessica Ramos, previously an ardent critic of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, endorsed him in the race for New York City mayor last week.
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A Killer Within Easy Reach

Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones.

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Spreading fertilizer on soil cleared of weeds using paraquat in Paramaribo.
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Sly Stone and the Sound of an America That Couldn’t Last

The influential musician, who died on Monday at 82, forged harmony — musical and otherwise — that he wasn’t able to hold together on his own.

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Motown, rock ’n’ roll, gospel, marching band, jazz, lullaby: For about three years, every one of Sly and the Family Stone’s hits was most of all of those.
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Khaby Lame, World’s Most Popular TikToker, Is Forced to Leave U.S.

Amid President Trump’s crackdown on immigration, agents detained Mr. Lame, 25, for overstaying a visa, and he left the country. Another Gen Z influencer took credit.

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The TikTok star Khaby Lame poses for a photograph after being named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in Dakar, Senegal, in January.
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How the Bay Area Shaped Sly Stone

One of the key figures in American music in the late ’60s got his professional start in the Bay Area. These are some of the spots that were crucial to his career.

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Sly Stone in the D.J. booth at San Francisco’s KSOL.
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Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say

In disputes over protests, deportations and tariffs, the president has invoked statutes that may not provide him with the authority he claims.

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President Trump has argued since he first ran for president in 2015 that the United States is in turmoil and that only he can restore it to greatness.
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Why the MAGA Right Became Obsessed With the Romanian Election

It started with a Russian influence campaign and a canceled vote. Then the American right showed up.

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A protest held in Bucharest, Romania, in support of the European Union on May 9, a little more than a week before the country held a hotly contested presidential election.
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Palestinian Authority President Says Hamas Must Exit Gaza

Mahmoud Abbas gave assurances to President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has set conditions for possible recognition of a Palestinian state at a U.N. conference next week.

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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in April.
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F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’

With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.

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Dr. Marty Makary, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, wrote an article in the journal JAMA arguing that A.I. would “radically increase efficiency” in the process of deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices.
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The Best Songs of 2025, So Far

Ten tracks that push boundaries, uncork emotions and can get the block party started.

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Bad Bunny’s “Baile Inolvidable” (“Unforgettable Dance”) bridges current and vintage sounds.
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Pressure Rises on Israel as U.K., Canada and Others Impose Sanctions on 2 Far-Right Ministers

The coordinated move highlights the hardening of several countries’ stance toward Israel amid the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

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The sanctions targeted the Israeli security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, and the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who are among the most hard-line members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.
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